Command Quote by Donald Rumsfeld

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

— Abraham Zaleznik

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

— Shiv Khera

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

— Charlotte Beers

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

— John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.

— Ordway Tead

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White…

— Barack Obama

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

— John C. Maxwell

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you…

— Eric Shinseki

“And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.”

— John Christopher

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already…

— Robert Reich

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

— Donald Rumsfeld

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want.…

— Allen C. Guelzo